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Christmas Prayers
The ancient Celtic Christians felt keenly the importance of beginnings and endings. “Thin times,” they called them, when the barrier between the physical world and the spiritual world were thinner than usual. Christmas, when God entered the world in a unique way. The end of the year, when the planet finished one cycle and began the next. These were sacred moments, and many of the prayers reflect these concepts. Here are a three you can use for these times.
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Does God Run Out of Patience? (1 Sam 28.6)
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Noah’s Blessings and Curses (Gen 9.25-27)
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